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No. 6I5,|56.. Patented Nov. 29, I898. E. GIBSON.

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(Application filed Feb. 28. 1898.)

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No. 6I5,|56. Patented NOV. 29, I898.

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APPLIANCE FOR USE IN DRYING BRICKS, 81.0.

( Application filed Feb. 28, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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PATENT EDWIN GIBSON, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 615,156, dated November 29, 1898.

Application filed February 28, 1898. Serial No. 672,031. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN GIBSON, residing at 51 Percival road, Bush Hill Park, Enfield, London, England, have invented new Improvements in Connection with the Drying of Bricks and other Articles and Substances, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in connection with the drying of bricks and other articles and substances, and although more particularly intended for bricks can nevertheless be employed for whiting, pottery-ware, and any other articles or substances requiring analogous treatment.

The objects are to protect the bricks or other articles from rain and bad weather while drying by air and sun previous to being put in the kiln or otherwise dealt with and to afford this protection in an efieotive and quickly-applied manner and with the employment of much less hand-labor than is needed at present. I attain these objects in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal section; Fig. 2, a plan; Fig. 3, a cross-section, and Fig. 4 a part-sectional plan.

Similar letters denote similar parts wherever occurring.

On and attached to suitable base-plates a are arranged two boards I) 6 side by side, with a space 0 between them. Upstanding from the bases at and through the space between the boards I) are the posts d, carrying a weather pitched ridge 6, extending longitudinally and overhanging on each side of the posts. Below 6, on each side of d, is a hinged flap or Wing f, of suflicient width that when opened out they will protect the bricks g or whatever else is placed on the boards I). The wings are connected at each end by a flexible hood h and can be raised or lowered by any suitable means, as by ropes, wires, chains, or the like passing around pulleys and manipulated from the end or any other convenient part.

- A suitable arrangement is shown in the drawings. Under each flap is an arm 1', hinged to the flap at j and each arm hinged to the other at it. From each hinged point is pivoted a hanging rod Z, running in a guide an, attached to the post d. At the lower end of Z is a loop n, to which is attached one end of a cord or chain 0, passing downward around the pulley 19, through a hole in the post d, and finally fastened to a rod (1, also running through the post d. The rods q are linked together, as at 0. To the end of one of the rods q is attached a chain or cord 8, passing through the last of the posts cl and wound around a drum t, which can be rotated by a handle or by a pivoted lever to, having a pawl 11 engaging with the teeth of the ratchet wheel w on the axle of the drum. The flexible hoods h are raised or lowered by a lever 00, passing through the end post and working on a pivot y, to one end of a: being attached the end of the cord or chain 2, which runs down d, over the pulley A, through a hole in the post, and-thence to the drum t. The other end of 0c is hinged to the hood.

The arrangement of parts is made in sections of suitable lengths, which can be connected to one another in any suitable manner, as by a batten B, attached to one section and passed under a loop 0 on the adjacent section. Several of the arrangements can be provided side by side and braced together by cross-bars D, put over upstanding pins E on the ridge-piece. By connecting the drums they might all be wound up together. If desired, the drums might be situated in and operated from an adjoining shed or building instead of on the appliance itself. Assuming the flaps f to be down and the articles on b to be exposed to the air or sun, then when bad weather comes on by winding up the drum t the various vertical rods and cords will be drawn downward and thrust outward, the arms 2' and levers x thus opening the hoods and flaps and protecting the bricks or whatever else may be on b. When the bad weather has passed, the flaps or hoods can be lowered, and so on, as occasion requires.

WVhat I claim'as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In an appliance for use in connection with the drying of bricks and other articles and substances, the base-pieces a on which are the boards I) and the posts d, having the ridgepieces a the pulleys p and the guides m; the

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said posts (Z having the hinged flaps or Wings ratchet-Wheel w, the pawl and the lever 11, f provided with hinged arms i and the fiexisubstantially as described and illustrated. ble hoods h provided with the pivoted levers I T T a, the said arms 2' being themselves provided EDXVIB GIBSON 5 with the rods Z and q and the cords 0, and the \Vitnesses:

said levers 0a with the cords ,2; the cords o and JOSHUA DAWSON \VATTS, 5 being attached to the drum t having the l HENRY GEORGE BISHOP. 

